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Updated: May 11, 2025
Since he sung his bold, and wild, and romantic lays, a more religious solemnity breathes from our mouldering Abbeys, and a sterner grandeur frowns over our time-shattered Castles. He has peopled our hills with Heroes, even as Ossian peopled them; and, like a presiding spirit, his Image haunts the magnificent cliffs of our Lakes and Seas.
On the islets behind these walls are time-shattered fortresses, palaces, terraces, pyramids; immense courtyards strewn with ruins and all so old that they seem to wither the eyes of those who look on them. "There has been a great subsidence.
Now first becoming separately and individually answerable for my conduct, and no longer absorbed into the general unit of a family, I felt myself, for the first time, burthened with the anxieties of a man, and a member of the world. Oxford, ancient mother! hoary with ancestral honors, time-honored, and, haply, it may be, time-shattered power I owe thee nothing!
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